Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...England who plans to launch a national, computer-printed tabloid this spring. By signing a no-strike contract with the electricians' union and skirting other unions, Shah boasts that his expenses will be a small fraction of Fleet Street's. If Shah's paper, Today, is a success, his fellow proprietors are likely to applaud him as much as they curse the added competition...
...board's measured optimism reflects its expectation that the Federal Reserve Board will continue to keep interest rates low, thus encouraging corporate investment and consumer spending. The prime rate has fallen from 11% to 9 1/2% during the past twelve months. Said Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "One essentially bullish aspect to the outlook is the expectation that the Federal Reserve will work actively to avoid a recession. It will intervene and push down rates if it judges that necessary to keep the economy from stagnating...
...type. Paul Castellano, head of the Gambino crime family and reputed kingpin of organized crime in America, wanted it that way: he was determined to change the image of the Mafia from violent crime syndicate to respectable family business. "We are in a new era," he once told his fellow mob chiefs. "Legitimacy, not muscle, is what we should project...
Whoever gunned down Castellano, investigators say, had the approval of the Commission. The cautious mobster, whose sister had been married to the late Crime Chief Carlo Gambino, was reviled by his fellow dons. They mocked him as a dainty executive who had served only one short jail sentence (for armed robbery) and had never bloodied his hands except when he trained as a butcher in his youth. They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were...
Hoyte has led Guyana since the death last August of Forbes Burnham, a charismatic Marxist who had eviscerated the country's bauxite-and-sugar-base d economy. Although he was Burnham's principal deputy for the past decade, last week the newly elected President offered his 800,000 fellow citizens some hope, promising that a revitalized economy would be his first priority. "I am a socialist," he said, "but I hope that I am not an airy-fairy socialist, that I am not bound by the dead hand of the past...